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The investigation for the stabbing homicide includes outside the yellow tape as Syracuse police officers and detectives look for the murder weapon and as Martha Chavis and Westcoe Williams, of Syracuse, walk through this housing community behind 1100 Townsend.
(Ellen M. Blalock / eblalock@syracuse.com)

Davis, who is from Syracuse, was stabbed multiple times near Pioneer Homes, police said. Two suspects have been described as men in their late teens or early twenties. Police do not have anyone in custody.

Police are considering Davis' death a homicide. They are asking anyone with information to call 442-5222.

Police could not confirm if Davis was the same man who was accidentally released from the Jamesville penitentiary in 2008 after officers mistook him for another man with the same first and last name. The man accidentally released in 2008 had the same middle initial and age as the man killed Tuesday.

Jermaine L. Davis was released from prison Friday May 30, 2008, Post-Standard archives state. He was captured by 9 p.m. the same day he was released, deputies said.

The man intended to be released, Jermaine T. Davis, 25, was jailed at a different facility -- the Onondaga County Justice Center in Syracuse, archives state.